Flash Loan - A loan that must be borrowed and repaid within the same transaction, enabling capital-efficient operations without requiring upfront collateral. FlashLeverage - Spiral Stake’s mechanism that uses flash loans to create leveraged positions in a single transaction instead of multiple manual steps. Leverage - Using borrowed capital to increase investment exposure. 3x leverage means controlling $3,000 worth of assets with $1,000 of your own money. Liquidation - Forced closure of a leveraged position when collateral value falls below required thresholds, typically resulting in losses. Loan-to-Value (LTV) - The ratio of borrowed amount to collateral value as a percentage. Higher LTV means more leverage but increased liquidation risk. Morpho - A lending protocol that provides competitive borrowing rates by optimizing across different DeFi lending pools. Pendle - A DeFi protocol that separates yield-bearing tokens into Principal Tokens (PT) and Yield Tokens, enabling fixed yield strategies. Principal Token (PT) - A token representing the principal amount of a yield-bearing asset with fixed returns until maturity. Proxy Contract - Individual smart contracts created for each user to isolate their positions from other users’ activities. Slippage - The difference between expected and actual execution prices during token swaps due to market movement or liquidity constraints.